Interracial dating still taboo

And while it's good that attitudes have changed, the 87% figure remains mind-boggling. What the heck are the other 13% of Americans thinking? It’s the same sort of question that comes to mind with “controversies” such as the furor over this adorable Cheerios advertisement, which committed no crime save casting a white mother and black father as the parents of an appropriately biracial girl.

where the video was also posted, displays several comments from individuals who were grateful to the company for representing a family that looks like their own.

CLEVELAND, Ohio - It was roughly a year ago that two of "The Walking Dead's" main characters hooked up.

And it just so happens that one of them is black and the other is white.

An Pew Research survey revealed that in 2008, 30% of Asian and 26% of Latino marriages were interracial, compared with 16% of black marriages, and 9% of white marriages.

Out of all the subgroups mentioned in the study, black women were found to participate in the fewest interracial marriages.

You're less likely to notice someone's skin color when they're saving you from being devoured.

While the Pew poll does show greater support for interracial marriages among non-Hispanic black Americans, at a near-unanimous 96%, than white Americans, at 84%, a separate poll shows that both groups are less likely to marry outside of their race than are other groups.The Cheerios commercial is hardly the only controversy over interracial marriage in recent memory.In 2009, Louisiana Justice of the Peace Keith Bardwell refused to grant a marriage to Terence and Beth Mc Kay because the couple is interracial.In an , Bardwell claimed that he wasn’t racist, but remained unapologetic for his belief that the interracial marriage should be prevented for the sake the couple's future children.Unfortunately for Bardwell, racism is racism, no matter what absurd excuse you try to dress it up with.